Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

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

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

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

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