To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

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.

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

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.