Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life..

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can b….

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary..

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality..

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically..

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would….

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them..

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm ….

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course..

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions..

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn..

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter..

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself..

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By la….

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life..

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the wh….

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of car….

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 f….

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language..

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed..