Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.