Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.