“Not everything assumes a name. Some things lead beyond words.”

“It’s beyond words, there’s no such thing.”

“What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.”

“Some things were beyond understanding.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

“Prayer must lead us beyond mind, words, and ideas to a more spacious place where God has a chance to get in.”

“Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”

“The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.”

“In fact, the Church never admitted free-will, or used the word when it could be avoided. In Latin, the term used was liberum arbitrium,— free choice,— and in French to this day it remains in strictness libre arbitre still. From Saint Augustine downwards the Church was never so unscientific as to admit of liberty beyond the faculty of choosing between paths, some leading through the Church and some not, but all leading to the next world.”

“Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.”