"Cette parole intérieure, silencieuse, secrète, que nous entendons seuls, est surtout évidente quand nous lisons..."

"Je me sers d’animaux pour instruire les hommes." La Fontaine

"For Goethe the flower is so much alive that it speaks and warns him; and he solves the problem differently from either Tennyson or Basho."

"The Tempest investigates marriage, love, culture. It is symbolic of man’s rational higher instincts versus his animal natural tendencies."

"Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly in large numbers, who want to consume more and more and whose tastes are standardized."

"Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves."

"Tous les grands individualistes communient dans ce trait : l'amour et la culture de la différence humaine, de l'unicité."

"When I have set myself now and then to consider the various distractions of men, the toils and dangers to which they expose themselves..."

[Extraits] "Tu serais extrêmement surprise de voir où j’ai atterri, à présent, dans ce pays aux possibilités vraiment sans limites..."

“Ma vie est l'histoire d'un inconscient qui a accompli sa propre réalisation.” C. G. Jung

[Letters] "O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy..."

“Nights, through dreams, tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

"Cant, guile, hypocrisy, front, face, playing a game, trying to impress in conventional ways: these are all absent in themselves."

"Every person is, in part, 'his own project', and makes himself."

[Essay] "If one were to compile a list of modernist authors, ... chances are quite good that the authors selected would be insomniacs."

“Is illness a prerequisite for the deepest insights ? Kierkegaard, Nietzsche ? Hölderlin ?”

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being." William James

"One could say .. that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is." Jung

"Comme Montaigne, Shakespeare, ou du moins Hamlet, reconnaît en lui-même avec inquiétude le tourment propre aux mélancoliques"

"Being a disease of self-consciousness — insomnia perhaps inevitably plagues a disproportionately high number of writers."

"Artistic creativity is the vehicle for the transformation of the sorrows of the world into beauty, truth and art."

"Jaspers poses the ancient and Renaissance question of the relationship between diseased psyche and creativity."

"Hamlet's mind," the critic says, "is constantly occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world without."