Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

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

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

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

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.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.