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

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

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!

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

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.