There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.