Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

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

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

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.

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