There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
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.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought..
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
