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

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

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.