The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice of which they are the perpetrators and the victims.