Freedom does not mean license.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

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

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.