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

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.

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

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.

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.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

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