"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."

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

"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: now there is only room here for myself."

"I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects."

"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."

"It takes a great man to be a good listener."

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."