That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.

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

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.