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.
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.
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
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.