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

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

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

To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.