Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid war, we shall be able to revive our real vision of life, but that we must see it, and therefore, that we must be critical to where we are.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.