I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

Animals are good to think with.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.