In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

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

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

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

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.