Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

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

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

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

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

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

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.