It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.
When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.
There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
Modern man’s happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
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.
The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.
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.