Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

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.