Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.