The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.