It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.