Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

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

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.

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

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.