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.

Culture is that which, for the average person, appears to be remote, hovers over, and humiliates him.

Culture is that upon whose reflection we obtain a larger reservoir of ways of knowing.

Culture is tasked, as its primary function, to harness and control energy.

A Culture is not a scientific object. It is produced historically and is actively contested.

Custom is a tyrant.

Custom is king over all.

Custom is powerful — there is no way to erase the unwritten law.

Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools

History is rooted in the future

History is that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

History is a bath of blood.

History is a picture book rather than a repertoire of notions.