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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

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

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

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

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.

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

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

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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