The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

When the image is new, the world is new.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.