We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.