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

By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

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

The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

Childhood lasts all through life.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.