I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's expanse, your eye is completely relaxed once your eye is relaxed, your mind is unfettered.

As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad everything looks black to me but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.