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?

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

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

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.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.