It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

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

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

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.