The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

The flesh is at the heart of the world.