A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.