There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.
