Forge in the smithy of your soul.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

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

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!

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