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

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

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

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.

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

The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe. immortal in some ways