If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.