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!

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.