Art Has No Other Object Than To

It Is With Our Entire Past ... That We Desire, Will And Act ... From This Survival Of The Past It Follows That Consciousness Cannot Go Through The Same State Twice. The Circumstances May Still Be The Same, But They Will Act No Longer On The Same Person ... That Is Why Our Duration Is Irreversible.

The Universe... Is A Machine For The Making Of Gods.

There Is Nothing [that] Disarms Us Like Laughter.

However Spontaneous It Seems, Laughter Always Implies A Kind Of Secret Freemasonry, Or Even Complicity, With Other Laughers, Real Or Imaginary.

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 Andconsequently Inexpressible In It. Analysis, On The Contrary, Is The Operation Which Reduces The Object To Elements Already Known.