To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.