To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.