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

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

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

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?