Crucial for man is his attitude toward failure: whether it remains hidden from him and overwhelms him only objectively at the end or whether he perceives it unobscured as the constant limit of his existence; whether he snatches at fantastic solutions and consolations or faces it honestly, in silence before the unfathomable. The way in which man approaches his failure determines what he will become.

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being.

from “Philosophy and Science”, <i>World Review Magazine</i> (March 1950)

The individual who can help himself is precisely the one who wills that authority exist in the world.