Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

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

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.