The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

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.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.