Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.