Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

Every thought is an afterthought.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Violence is an expression of impotence.

... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.