We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

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.