As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

Cinema is like dream.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.