I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each contributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.

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

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

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

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

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

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