There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

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

The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud. Marx showed the moving powers and the conflicts in the social-historical process. Freud aimed at the critical uncovering of the inner conflicts. Both worked for the liberation of man, even though Marx's concept was more comprehensive and less time-bound than Freud's.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

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

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

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