I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

We must make a decision of values.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.