A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

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.

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

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

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

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