 The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. |
| To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. |
| There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. |
| Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. |
| The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. |
| 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 add to it in external perception. |
| Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. |
| The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. |
| To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. |
| In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically. |
| It seems that laughter needs an echo. |
| I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. |
| In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. Topics: Art |
| Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. |
