The Idea Of The Future, Pregnant With

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

The Present Contains Nothing More Than The Past, And What Is Found In The Effect Was Already In The Cause.

I Believe That The Time Given To Refutation In Philosophy Is Usually Time Lost. Of The Many Attacks Directed By Many Thinkers Against Each Other, What Now Remains? Nothing, Or Assuredly Very Little. That Which Counts And Endures Is The Modicum Of Positive Truth Which Each Contributes. The True Statement Is, Of Itself, Able To Displace The Erroneous Idea, And Becomes, Without Our Having Taken The Trouble Of Refuting Anyone, The Best Of Refutations.

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

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