Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it.

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

The motive power of democracy is love

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

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

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.