The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.