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

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

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