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.

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.

Sigmund Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

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.

Happiness does not exclude sadness -- if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

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.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

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.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.