The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.