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.

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

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

The words of the world want to make sentences.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.