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

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

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.

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.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

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