Love is not a sentiment which can be easily indulged in by anyone, regardless of the level of maturity reached by him. Love is an art, just as living is an art.

Modern man has been freed from the bonds of pre-individualistic society, which simultaneously gave him security and limited him. He has not yet gained freedom in the positive sense of the realization of his individual self.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

There is only one possible, productive solution for the relationship of individualized man with the world: his active solidarity with all men and his spontaneous activity, love and work, which unite him again with the world.

Being that can be understood is language.

-- Hans-Georg Gadamer

Language is the house of Being.

-- Martin Heidegger

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

-- Hannah Arendt

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

-- Paul Gauguin

The thoughts or cognitions occur automatically, and may be regarded as the patient's automatic interpretations of his experiences.

-- Aaron Beck

If your thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning, and erroneous interpretations, you are, in truth, blind and deaf.

-- Aaron Beck