The Ultimate Error Is The Refusal To

Tools And Techniques Ought To Be An Extension Of Consciousness, But They Can Just As Easily Be A Protection From Consciousness. Then The Tools Become Defence Mechanisms... Against The Unconscious.

Human Freedom Involves Our Capacity To Pause Between The Stimulus And Response And, In That Pause, To Choose The One Response Toward Which We Wish To Throw Our Weight. The Capacity To Create Ourselves, Based Upon This Freedom, Is Inseparable From Consciousness Or Self-awareness. (p. 100)

Science, Nietzsche Had Warned, Is Becoming A Factory, And The Result Will Be Ethical Nihilism.

It Is Dangerous To Know, But It Is More Dangerous Not To Know.

Our Age Is One Of Transition, In Which The Normal Channels For Utilizing The Daimonic Are Denied; And Such Ages Tend To Be Times When The Daimonic Is Expressed In Its Most Destructive Form.