Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

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.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.