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

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.

. . . 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.

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

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.