Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

You have to stop to change direction.

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

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