Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.