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Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we hav...more

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbe...more

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the s...more

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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to...more

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

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There is another more psychological obstacle to the full development of love in the modern world, and that is the fear that many people feel of not pr...more

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In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generall...more

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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and wom...more

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When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, since the latter considers himself to be by now quite ...more

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The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. Those who have never ...more

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at becaus...more

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Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.