There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.