We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

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

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

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?

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.