Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

We revel in the laxness of the path we take.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.