To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

You have to stop to change direction.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

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.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.