I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

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.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

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.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.