This popular picture of Marx's 'materialism' - his anti-spiritual tendency, his wish for uniformity and subordination - is utterly false. Marx's aim was that of the spiritual emancipation of man, of h...
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Love is a power which produces love.
The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.
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.
If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in making man submit to its patterns without resistance....
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
Immature loves says ' I love because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.
If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big b...
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does th...
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge t...
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.