God creates the animals, man creates himself.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.