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

[Focus] "Thoth, the "excellent of understanding", observed and wrote down everything that happened and reported it to Ra every morning."

[Essay] "Birds are naturally the most joyful creatures in the world...."

"Our regeneration depends on an 'ultraphilosophy' that brings us closer to nature by exploring the entirety and the interior of things."

"... the old master to whom one might well apply the words he himself used to describe Pissarro: humble and colossal."

"After you have done with all your classes, the next thing is a collection of books, a great library of good books."

[Quotations] "I believe that we are on earth for this purpose, for contemplating and searching and listening for lost remote sounds..."

"One of my mental complications — horrible beyond words — is a fear of insanity, which itself is insanity."

”What one takes from this biography is a sense of a man who wanted simultaneously to be no one and to be everyone."

"However much my soul may be descended from the Romantics, I can find no peace of mind except in reading classical authors."

"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."

"The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone."

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

"While Hesse recognized that ideas of degeneration existed during this period, he warned the reader not to yield to despair."

“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

[Book] "Today, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream..."

"Just as the artist needs a space in which to work, the artist also opens a space with the work of art."

"In 1860, Dostoevsky began to formally write about his prison experience in a serial work he called Notes from a Dead House."

[Quotations] "While the rebel is an antinomian, merely rejecting the established, the outlaw is motivated by a quest for autonomy."

"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

[Essay] "The aim of this essay is to make the mystical, or contemplative elements of Rimbaud's life and poetry clear."

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers..."