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.

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

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.