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

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.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.