Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.