Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble