Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

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.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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