Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

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

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.