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• ‟ Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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• ‟ Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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• ‟ Man always dies before he is fully born.

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• ‟ The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

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• ‟ There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

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• ‟ The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

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• ‟ Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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• ‟ In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

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• ‟ The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

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• ‟ Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

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• ‟ Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

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