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

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

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

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

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.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.