“Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.”

“I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood.”

“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”

“I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.”

“The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.”

“Conversation. — Because they have many of those ideas that, to be shown, have need of eyes, gestures, voice, a whole multitude of signs that the written word does not accompany. One sees the soul in operation.”

“I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.”

“Theorems… record more complex patterns of thinking that once shown to be valid need not be repeated every time they are needed.”

“In separateness only does love learn definition.”

“It is of small importance whether De Stijl still exists as a 'group'; a new style was born, a new aesthetic created; it needs only to be understood – and cultivated.”