We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another