Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right.

- Roger Caillois

In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that …

- Roger Caillois

We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.

- Roger Caillois

Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of preca…

- Roger Caillois

I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in th…

- Roger Caillois

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

- Roger Caillois

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect up…

- Roger Caillois

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the univ…

- Roger Caillois