Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

You have to stop to change direction.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.