Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

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

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

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.