If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.
All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
I need you because I love you.
While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Freedom does not mean license.
Love is a power which produces love.
The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.
To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.
In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.