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

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

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.