1. "The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
2. “Language is a form of human reason, and has its reasons which are unknown to man.”
3. "Language is a form of human reason that has its own internal logic of which man knows nothing."
4. “…therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their beingaware of the fact.”
5. “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.”
6. “The world began without the human race and it will end without it.... Man has never - save only when he reproduces himself - done other than cheerfully dismantle million upon million of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.”