Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.