Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth.
Happiness is a man’s greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr.
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one’s subjective needs and expectations.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.
Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.
Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.
Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.
Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody – and I “know” nothing.
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.
Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.