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

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.

As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

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