I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

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

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

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.

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.