In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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.

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

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

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.

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

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