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

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

We must make a decision of values.

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.