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

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

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Love is the problem of an animal.

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

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