Cognition reigns but does not rule.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.