Genius Is That Which Forces

I See Plainly How External Images Influence The Image That I Call My Body : They Transmit Movement To It.

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.

Knowledge, In So Far As It Is Directed To Practical Matters, Has Only To Enumerate The Principal Possible Attitudes Of The Thing Towards Us, As Well As Our Best Possible Attitude Towards It. Therein Lies The Ordinary Function Of Ready-made Concepts, Those Stations With Which We Mark Out The Path Of Becoming. But To Seek To Penetrate With Them Into The Inmost Nature Of Things, Is To Apply To The Mobility Of The Real A Method Created In Order To Give Stationary Points Of Observation On It.

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 Varying The Manufacture.

The Emotion Felt By A Man In The Presence Of Nature Certainly Counts For Something In The Origin Of Religions.