The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

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

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

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