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.

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

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

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

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

It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.