to live means to lack something at every moment

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

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?

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.