“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of th...”

“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”

“O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: n...”

“As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!”

“It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”