Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

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

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.