To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
From Nathaniel Branden
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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