A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.