"Although in the popular imagination Eros is seen in personal and human terms as love, it is primarily an abstract and cosmic principle."

"Pouvoirs nouveaux, gênes nouvelles, le monde n’a jamais moins su où il allait."

"The final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment, called satori."

"The writer Thomas Berry says that it's all a question of story. The story is the plot we assign to life and the universe..."

"There is a power in loneliness, a purity, self-immersion, and depth which is unlike any other experience."

"MY LIFE, more than that of anyone I know, has been spent in solitude and wandering. Why this is true, or how it happened, I cannot say."

"There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves."

"There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves."

"Our era of technology has not emphasized reading and study as virtues."

"Paul parle d’être un "aphôrismenos", c’est-à-dire ici un "mis à part", eh bien j’en ai été un dès ma plus tendre enfance."

"The mystes, who is “he who closes the eyes”, was considered as reborn, and became epoptes —“he who sees”. "

"One of the generalities most often noted about Americans is that we are a restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people."

"It may well be an error to think that he who give voice to the multitude’s sorrow must himself always be victim to great personal despair."

"’Tis a presumption of great danger and consequence, besides the absurd temerity it draws after it, to contemn what we do not comprehend."

"The individuation process, as a universal law of life, exhibits an archetypal pattern which remains more or less constant and regular."

"Privacy and inwardness are perhaps the strongest means of individualization."

Amidst this gray, dreary anonymity we know that we live in a world from which all the gracious marks of "presence" have been banished."

"Of the nature of the soul, though her true form be ever a theme of more than mortal discourse, let me speak briefly, and in a figure."

" Many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty cares, in a constant recurrence of the same employments."

An old king in Shakespeare cautions: “Make no noise, make no noise, draw the curtains .... we’ll go to supper i’ the morning.”

"Our time, said Max Scheler, is the first in which man has become thoroughly and completely problematic to himself."

"Dissipation of mind, and length of time, are the remedies to which the greatest part of mankind trust in their afflictions."

"La curiosité des enfants n'est que le désir de connaître. Elle mérite donc d'être encouragée."

"Quelqu'un se plaignait des malheurs qu'on rencontre dans la vie ; il répondit que le malheur n'était point de vivre, mais de mal vivre."