This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.