If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

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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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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

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

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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism

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We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

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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.

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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