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

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it.

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.