What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

I need you because I love you.