The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause..

The universe... is a machine for the making of gods..

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among wh….

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calcul….

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority f….

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action..

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour..

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself..

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks..

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on li….

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light..

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization..

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you ad….

I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, wha….

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before ….

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it….

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly..

Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well ….

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everythin….

When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its i….

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things ou….