Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

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.

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

When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

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

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

We are gods with anuses.