Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

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.