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 tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.
We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.
Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I’d say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
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.
Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.