To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.

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.

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.