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

Animals are good to think with.

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.

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.

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

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

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.