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

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

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.

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Animals are good to think with.

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

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.