One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

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

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

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.

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

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.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.