Man is the only animal that can be bored.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.