The fact is certain because it is impossible.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.