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

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

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.

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

Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.