We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

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

To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.

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

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Love is the problem of an animal.