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

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.