The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.