This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

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

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

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.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.