The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

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.

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.