Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

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.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

Every institution is inherently demonic.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason