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

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

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

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

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

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

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