The Archive is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.

Archive is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.

Comparison is no proof.

Comparison is painful — Bats feel proud in the absence of birds

Comparison is the essence of all judgement — Nothing is good or bad but by comparison.

Comparison is natural — after visiting another man's house one notices rotten beams in one's own.

Context is everything — a handsaw is a good thing, but not to shave with

Context is everything. In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Context is that which cannot even exist before its own emergence. As an analytic it is part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

Context matters — Don't use an axe to embroider.

Evidence is generalizable — You may know by a handful the whole sack.

Evidence is the substance of things of things not seen.

Evidence is sometimes as good as proof — One swallow does not make a summer, but one camel makes a desert.

Evidence is not equivalent to proof — One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.