Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

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