Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.