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

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

When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.