“...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.”
“The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd.”
“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”
“No matter how deep in disgrace, a human being IS human, after all.”
“The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.”
“The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice.”