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

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

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

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.

Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.