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.

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

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

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

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.