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

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

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

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.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

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

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.