The motive power of democracy is love

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

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

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.