In spite of increasing production and comfort, man loses more and more the sense of self, feels that his life is meaningless, even though such a feeling is largely unconscious. In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation w…

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The dan…

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which on…

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

For the history of the centuries that have passed since the birth of Christ nowhere reveals conditions like those of the present. There has never been such bui…

Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.