Life Does Not Proceed By The Association

There Is Nothing [that] Disarms Us Like Laughter.

Instinct Perfected Is A Faculty Of Using And Even Constructing Organized Instruments; Intelligence Perfected Is The Faculty Of Making And Using Unorganized Instruments.

A Situation Is Always Comic If It Participates Simultaneously In Two Series Of Events Which Are Absolutely Independent Of Each Other, And If It Can Be Interpreted In Two Quite Different Meanings.

The Major Task Of The Twentieth Century Will Be To Explore The Unconscious, To Investigate The Subsoil Of The Mind.

To Perceive Means To Immobilize. To Say This Is To Say That We Seize, In The Act Of Perception, Something Which Outruns Perception Itself.