Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.