"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."
"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."
"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."
"Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man."
"Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it."
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."
"Only a person who has faith in himself can be faithful to others."
"The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself."
"Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity."
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."
"Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.""
"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."
"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."
"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
"Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul."