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Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

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A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "fo...more

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For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away.

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The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, tec...more

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The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgment of the validity of t...more

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In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-alm...more

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Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the perso...more

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The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must ...more

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Life has ceased to be lived in a closed world the center of which was man; the world has become limitless and the same time threatening. By losing his...more

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Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardiz...more

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the...more

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Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.