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

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

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.