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.

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

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

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

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 musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.