Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

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.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

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

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.