In The Case Of European Towns, The

Music Is A Language By Whose Means Messages Are Elaborated, That Such Messages Can Be Understood By The Many But Sent Out Only By Few, And That It Alone Among All The Languages Unites The Contradictory Character Of Being At Once Intelligible And Untranslatable - These Facts Make The Creator Of Music A Being Like The Gods.

With All Its Technical Sophistication, The Photographic Camera Remains A Coarse Device Compared To The Human Hand And Brain.

These Facts Make The Creator Of Music A Being Like The Gods, And Make Music Itself The Supreme Mystery Of Human Knowledge.

[serialism] Is Like A Sailless Ship, Driven Out To Sea By Its Captain, Who Has Grown Tired Of Its Being Used Only As A Pontoon, And Who Is Privately Convinced That By Subjecting Life Aboard To The Rules Of An Elaborate Protocol, He Will Prevent The Crew From Thinking Nostalgically Either Of Their Home Port Or Of Their Ultimate Destination.…

The Only Phenomenon With Which Writing Has Always Been Concomitant Is The Creation Of Cities And Empires, That Is The Integration Of Large Numbers Of Individuals Into A Political System, And Their Grading Into Castes Or Classes. It Seems To Have Favored The Exploitation Of Human Beings Rather Than Their Enlightenment.