Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral consciousness and the arts of civilization? It is a m… - Rollo May

"... günümüzde radyo programlarının kapanışında sarf edilen tuhaf bir cümle var: "Dinlediğiniz için teşekkürler"... Alkışı kabul etmek ayrı, fakat dinleyiciye sizi dinleyip eğlenme lütfunu bahşettiği için teşekkür etmek bambaşka bir şey. Bu durum verilen hizmete atfedilecek değer yahut değersizliğin tüketici veya alıcının keyfine kaldığı anlamına geliyor... birçok insan davranışlarının değerini davranışın kendisiyle değil de bu davranışın nasıl kabul gördüğüyle ölçüyor. (S. 59-60)

Modern esere altında yatan ezoterik şifreyi bilmeden bakan çoğu insan, hatta zeki olanlar dahi hiçbir şey anlayamaz. [Mondrian, Pollock]... yetenekli sanatçıların kendilerini ancak bu denli sınırlı bir dille ifade edebilmeleri toplumumuza ilişkin çok önemli bir ipucu vermiyor mu? (S. 65)

"Hayat aynı anda hem kendini yinelemekle hem de aşmaya çalışmakla meşguldür." diye ifade eder Simone de Beauvoir etik üzerine kaleme aldığı kitabında; "tek yaptığı kendini idame ettirmekse eğer, yaşamak ölmenin bir çeşididir ve insanın varlığı tuhaf bir bitki örtüsünden farksızlaşır..." (S. 135)

[Kafese Kapatılan Adam hikayesi] (S. 139-141)"

Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them.…Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled.

Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the innumerable daily activities (and these are two phases of the same process) — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever. Now creating, actualizing one’s possibilities, always involves negative as well as positive aspects. It always involves destroying the status quo, destroying old patterns within oneself, progressively destroying what one has clung to from childhood on, and creating new and original forms and ways of living. If one does not do this, one is refusing to grow, refusing to avail himself of his possibilities; one is shirking his responsibility to himself. Hence refusal to actualize one’s possibilities brings guilt toward one’s self. But creating also means destroying the status quo of one’s environment, breaking the old forms; it means producing something new and original in human relations as well as in cultural forms (e.g., the creativity of the artist). Thus every experience of creativity has its potentiality of aggression or denial toward other persons in one’s environment or established patterns within one’s self. To put the matter figuratively, in every experience of creativity something in the past is killed that something new in the present may be born. Hence, for Kierkegaard, guilt feeling is always a concomitant of anxiety: both are aspects of experiencing and actualizing possibility. The more creative the person, he held, the more anxiety and guilt are potentially present.