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

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.