Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Metaphysics is a science.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.