Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

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

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