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

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

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

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

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

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

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