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

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

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

When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.