Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.