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

I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.