Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. |
My body, an object destined to move other objects, is, then, a centre of action ; it cannot give birth to a representation. |
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. |
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science |
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization |
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. |
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. |
The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the aspects of matter on which we can lay hold: our perception, which exactly measures our virtual action on things, thus limits itself to the objects which actually influence our organs and prepare our movements. |
The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods |
The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods |
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. |
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. |
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind |
The motive power of democracy is love |
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. |