Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.