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.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

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

The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

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.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.