One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.