To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

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

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

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.

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

Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.