‘The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.’
- Vaclav Havel
‘…[T]he heart of the matter is knowing whether evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it’s purposeful, we can fight it, it’s hard to defeat, but we have a chance, like two boxers in the same weight class, more or less. If it’s random, on the other hand… we’ll just have to hope that God, if He exists, has mercy on us. And that’s what it all comes down to.’
- Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
‘It is no longer a matter of a person’s knowledge of good and evil, but solely the living will of God; our knowledge of God’s will is not something over which we ourselves dispose, but it depends solely upon the grace of God, and this grace is and requires to be new every morning.’
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
