The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

Play is the exultation of the possible.