Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
