Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that…

Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that…

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

To be human means to feel inferior.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the princi…