In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization