Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.