One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

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.

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.

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.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

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