Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.