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

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.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

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!

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality