We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

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

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

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!

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.