Giving is the highest expression of potency.

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.