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

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.