There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

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

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.