Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves