It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.