Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.