The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

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