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.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

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

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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.