There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

To think is to say 'no.'

When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.