meaning

We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.

“Maybe you haven’t developed a passion yet because you’ve spent your entire life doing what others wanted you to do.”

I want to stick to facts. I gave up trying to understand long ago. As soon as I feel I want to understand something I immediately have to renounce facts, whereas I have decided to stay true to facts…’

“Insight,” he said, “is almost always a rearrangement of fact.”

There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.

a way of overcompensating: we learn to pretend we have opinions because deep in our own hearts, we really don’t.

For me, the Greek gods reflect what happens to humans when we see only ourselves and our own needs. The great gods have such infinite power and resources that they have forgotten what it’s like to want, to suffer, to show empathy, to face all of life’s minor inconveniences. They have forgotten what it’s like to be told no, and it has turned them in

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are.

For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for. Without a firm conviction of the purpose of living, man will not consent to live and will destroy himself rather than remain on earth, though he be surrounded by bread.