“But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizonfrom which we watch for it.”

“We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing down too hard. Hit your heel into it and you make a hole in which you will disappear. True philosophy has never consisted in probing all problems, but often on the contrary eluding them. We are skirting an abyss: beware of vertigo.”

“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same”

“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.”

“...for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”

“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.”