Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
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.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out a certain way. Hope is the conviction that something makes sense, no matter what the outcome.
I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties?
It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
Lying can never save us from another lie.
Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
The existence of a higher authority than man himself simply began to get in the way of human aspirations.
The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.
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.
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
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.
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.
Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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