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.

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Love is the problem of an animal.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.