Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

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.

In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice of which they are the perpetrators and the victims.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

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