Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.