History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.