If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names.

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

We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.