The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

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An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

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When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

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Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built

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The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane

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