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

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.