With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.