Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

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

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.