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

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.