Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

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

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.