Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.