Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

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

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.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.

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