The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

The same thought resonates.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses