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

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.