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

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

Metaphysics is a science.

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

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

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

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me