In spite of the universalistic spirit of the monotheistic Western religions and of the progressive political concepts that are expressed in the idea 'that all men are created equal,' love for mankind has not become a common experience. Love for mankind is looked upon as an achievement which, at best, follows love for an individual or as an abstract concept to be realized only in the future. But love for man cannot be separated from love for one individual. To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a…

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to g…

The principle of the brotherhood of man is that narcissistic one, for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that w…