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

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.

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

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.