Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. “Patriotism” is its cult.
Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Mother is food; she is love; she is warmth; she is earth.
Men are born equal but they are also born different.
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.
Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Man may be defined as the animal that can say “I,” that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.
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.
