The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

...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?

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.