Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

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

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.