We know not through our intellect but through our Experience

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.

Complete salvation is being able to be so intimate with God that He’s your very best friend.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

I never lose when I love. I only lose when I'm afraid to