Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

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.

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.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.