Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

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

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)