The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.