Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.