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

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

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

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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!