All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

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

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.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

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.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.