"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"The future is open. It depends on us."

"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."

"The more totalitarian the system, the more it demands conformity, not just outwardly, but inwardly."

"The world is full of wonders, but it is also full of dangers."