Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.