The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

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

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

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?

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.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.