One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it..

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent thi….

We understand nature by resisting it..

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allo….

When the image is new, the world is new..

Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the….

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

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images….

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach..

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name….

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of sol….

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event..

Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks ….

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space..

The blank page gives us the right to dream..

To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its ima….

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?.

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in..

The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it..

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself..