Men are born equal but they are also born different.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

...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?

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life