Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we...
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind not the fiend or the sadist.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and...
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.