Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.