In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
