If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

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

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.