"Most of us are so preoccupied with the noise, .. the cacophony of the modern world that we have no energy left for constructive living."

"The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real."

"C’est des mains de la fille de Zeus, Pallas Athéné, que Persée reçoit le bouclier symbolique, le miroir de vérité."

"The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes."

"Se fiant vaniteusement à ses ailes qui ne sont qu’artifice, .. l’intellect ne connaît plus de mesure, il se propose d’atteindre le soleil."

"Transformational Positivity, he says, is the future of organizational change. Optimism can and must become a permanent state of mind."

"When we are not alone when we are on our own, then we have achieved solitude."

"When we are depressed we may say we are dispirited; we have lost the energy for the journey..."

“Success, peace, happiness, and distraction — pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful.”

"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."

"The Tempest investigates marriage, love, culture. It is symbolic of man’s rational higher instincts versus his animal natural tendencies."

"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..."