 Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. |
| The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible. |
| But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. |
| Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics. |
| Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. |
| The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. |
| But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. |
| Metaphysics is a science. |
| On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. |
| The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all. |
| It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. |
