Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

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

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.