Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

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

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.