One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?