"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
"Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressive in it."
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
"Homosapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
"To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity."
"Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization."
"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
"The motive power of democracy is love."
"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
"Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn."
"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 has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind."
"Our laughter is always the laughter of a group."
"There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language."
"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
"It seems that laughter needs an echo."
"Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressive in it."
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
"Homosapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
"To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity."
"Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization."
"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
"The motive power of democracy is love."
"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
"Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn."
"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 has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind."
"Our laughter is always the laughter of a group."
"There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language."
"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
"It seems that laughter needs an echo."
