All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!