Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.