Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

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

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

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

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.