On Love:
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.
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.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.
On Life:
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.
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
On Happiness:
Happiness is a mans greatest achievement it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
On Greed:
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
On God:
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.