There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.