As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is….

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?.

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing t….

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it wer….

It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be hap….

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both..

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them..

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but extern….

Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, lik….

When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simpl….

To think is to say 'no.'.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking..

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat..

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns..

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove..

I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's expanse, your eye is comp….

We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my ….

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have..

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage..

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it..

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true..