Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.