"We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality."
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"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."
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"Lying can never save us from another lie."
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"Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred."
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"We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena."
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"The salvation of the world lies in the human heart."
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"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."
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"The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance."
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"Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses."
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"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions."
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"Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world."
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"Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God."
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"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."
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"Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it"
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"Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals."
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"Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you."
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"We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith."
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