All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

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

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

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

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

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.