Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.