Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.