Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own