For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.