Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.