Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

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?

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.