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

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".

The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.