I therefore claim to show, 

not how men think in myths, 

but how myths operate in men's minds 

without their being aware of the fact.

I have striven 

not to laugh at human actions, 

not to weep at them, 

nor to hate them, 

but to understand them.

The desire of knowledge, 

like the thirst of riches, 

increases ever with the acquisition of it.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, 

waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Properly speaking, 

history is nothing 

but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, 

nor any thing sooner learned 

than to deny the sentiments of our hearts 

and the principle we act from: 

but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, 

and nobody comes into the world without them.

To be what we are, 

and to become what we are capable of becoming, 

is the only end of life.

Science is magic that works.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; 

Thou hast another time and space as well.

Truth in science 

can be defined as 

the working hypothesis 

best suited to open the way 

to the next better one.

What makes photography a strange invention 

is that its primary raw materials 

are light and time.

We do not know, in most cases, 

how far social failure and success are due to heredity, 

and how far to environment. 

But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Be just before you are generous.