The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through “reminiscence,” that is by “remembering,” by intuitively searching into our own experience.
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.
All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love.
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.