One does not become fully human painlessly.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

Sisyphus,' is an interpretation of the unavoidable limits to which everyone who is human is condemned. The constructive way of dealing with anxiety in this sense consists of learning to live with it, accepting it as a 'teacher,' to borrow Kirkegaard's phrase, to school us in confronting our human destiny.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.