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

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

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People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?

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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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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

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Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

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

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

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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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