The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.