Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

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

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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

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

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.