Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Whither should we aim if not towards God?