There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.