What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish;...

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Every creature is a word of God.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.