It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.