" Dietro ciascuno di questi elementi si nasconde un problema irreale e irrisolto: dietro l'antisemitismo, la questione ebraica; dietro il decadimento dello Stato nazionale, il problema irrisolto di una nuova organizzazione dei popoli; dietro il razzismo, il problema irrisolto di una nuova concezione del genere umano; dietro l'espansionismo fine a sé stesso, il problema irrisolto di riorganizzare un mondo che diventa sempre più piccolo, e che siamo costretti a dividere con popoli la cui storia e le cui tradizioni sono estranee al mondo occidentale. La grande attrazione esercitata dal totalitarismo si fondava sulla convinzione diffusa, e spesso consapevole, che esso fosse in grado di dare una risposta a tali problemi, e potesse quindi adempiere ai compiti della nostra epoca ".
HANNAH ARENDT
ALBERT CAMUS
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.
No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming – that is the whole
tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
t is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
