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

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.