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

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.

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

Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

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