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

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

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.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.

How can arguments based on fact prevail in a nation where so many people know so little?

Solitude is the profoundest fact

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.