A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
You have to stop in order to change direction.
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.
Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love – or to be loved by – is difficult.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.
Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with – the love of life.
When people can’t handle God any more, they turn to religion.
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.