“The desire to have precise ideas often leads to doing nothing.”

Original: Les idées précises conduisent souvent à ne rien faire. — Excessive insistence on certainty can become an excuse for avoiding action. · Mélange (French)

• Action
• Ideas
• Perfection

“It is impossible to say to the World, to the Body: I want nothing from you, but want nothing from me either.”

Original: Il est impossible de dire au Monde, au Corps: je ne veux rien de toi, mais ne veuille rien de moi. — The remark stresses the unavoidable reciprocal demands made by existence and embodiment. · Tel quel (French)

• Body
• Existence
• Interdependence

“The little unexplained facts always contain enough to overturn all explanations of the great facts.”

Original: Les petits faits inexpliqués contiennent toujours de quoi renverser toutes les explications des grands faits. — Small anomalies can expose the weakness of grand theories and sweeping explanations. · Cahiers (French)

• Doubt
• Evidence
• Science