Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Love is an act of faith.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.