The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be interpreted, provided the right key is avail-able, for example the method of free association.

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.