Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

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.

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

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.