Delphi, Greece - 20071. “All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.”
2. “An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.”
3. “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 which its impetus is divided.”
4. “I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.”
5. "In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."
6. “In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.”
7. “Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”
8. “Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.”
9. “Laughter has no greater foe than emotion.... To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart.”
10. “Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilisation.”
11. “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 freedom.”
12. "The analogy between time and space is in fact wholly external and superficial."
13. “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
14. ”The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.”
15. ”The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.”
16. ”The universe . . . is a machine for creating gods.”
17. “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
18. “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
19. “To perceive means to immobilize . . . we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.”
20. “Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.”
2. “An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.”
3. “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 which its impetus is divided.”
4. “I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.”
5. "In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."
6. “In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.”
7. “Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”
8. “Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.”
9. “Laughter has no greater foe than emotion.... To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart.”
10. “Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilisation.”
11. “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 freedom.”
12. "The analogy between time and space is in fact wholly external and superficial."
13. “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
14. ”The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.”
15. ”The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.”
16. ”The universe . . . is a machine for creating gods.”
17. “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
18. “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
19. “To perceive means to immobilize . . . we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.”
20. “Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.”
