We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

We must make a decision of values.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

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

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

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.