"Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness."
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"Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter."
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"We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic."
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"Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power."
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"That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man."
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"We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt."
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"Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself."
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"Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved."
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"It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths."
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"Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it."
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"Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center."
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"The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision."
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"Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be."
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"Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get."
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"There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation."
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"However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings."
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"Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world."
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"Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day."
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"We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for."
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"The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face."
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