Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable. — Paul Valéry

"I cannot think that there exists more than one Sovereign Good."

"Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects."

"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."

"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."

"Is not to meditate to deepen oneself in Order?"

"Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science."