I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
