Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.