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

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

. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

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

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.