Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

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.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.