Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

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

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.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.