We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

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.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

[Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no need to seek to discover the distortions, because one must recognize that many dreams are more or less distortions.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.