The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.

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

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.