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.

What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.