“Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never”

“To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.”

“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.”

“Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can ...”

“Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. 'Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?' he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.'Maybe it believes you can handle i...”