Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

Trust no one, and let none believe.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.