The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

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

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

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.