Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.