Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

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

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.