“In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.”

“The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.”

“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”

“The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and persistence due still to the Muslims' lack of understanding of the true nature and implications of secularization as a philosophical program.”

“If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.”

“...our expectations are the result of our beliefs about how likely something will happen combined with how much we value what we hope will happen.”