The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. - Milan Kundera

پرسش بااهمیت را فقط یک کودک می‌تواند طرح کند. درواقع همیشه ساده‌ترین پرسش‌ها بااهمیت‌ترین پرسش‌هاست و پاسخی برای آنها وجود ندارد. پرسش‌هایی که نمی‌توان به آنها پاسخ داد، درست همان چیزی است که محدودیت‌های امکانات بشر را نشان می‌دهد و مرزهای هستی ما را تعیین می‌کند.

"In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: "I know just what you mean.

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain. The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of egocentrism.