Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appear

Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often

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

In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self

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

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love