The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

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.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.