Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.

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.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.