"J’ai étudié les caractéristiques et les tempéraments des animaux soi-disant "inférieurs" et je les ai comparés aux tempéraments humains."

"Anxiety is inescapable, anxiety is a part of all our lives. Anxiety is the source of all creativity."

"May the Dragon of Envy be far from us, and the Swan of Imprudence, the Cassiopeia of Vanity, the Andromeda of Laziness..."

"What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."

"The same processes the alchemists employed in contemplation of the transmutation of metals can be used to bring union to the self."

"Ces belles heures de contemplation rêveuse, nous les recherchons ; nous prenons nos dispositions pour que rien ne vienne les gâter."

"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."

"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"