- "Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
- "The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
- "Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
- "The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."
- "The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
- "None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."
- "Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."
- "If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."
- "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."
- "A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action."
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