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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values.
The Courage to Create (1975)
The daimonic is the urge in every being to affirm itself, assert itself, perpetuate and increase itself.
Love and Will (1969)
Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
The Courage to Create (1975)
All life is a flux between these two aspects of the daimonic.
Love and Will (1969)
One does not become fully human painlessly.
Foreword to Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology (1978)
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.
Love and Will (1969)
Civilization begins with a rebellion.
Power and Innocence (1972)
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
The Courage to Create (1975)
The past has meaning as it lights up the present, and the future as it makes the present richer and more profound.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
He is drawn to the unquiet minds and spirits, for he shares their everlasting inability to accept stultifying control.
Power and Innocence (1972)
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary.
The Courage to Create (1975)
If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man.
Power and Innocence (1972)
The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.
Love and Will (1969)
It is a road to universals beyond discrete personal experience.
The Courage to Create (1975)
This may be the particular “neurotic personality of our time” – the neurotic pattern of contemporary “outer directed” organizational man.
The Discovery of Being (1983)
The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand.
Love and Will (1969)
Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.
Power and Innocence (1972)
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.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
The practical implicati´on is that one's goal is to live each moment with freedom, honesty and responsibility.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)