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

When the image is new, the world is new.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

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

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.