The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.