To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Appearances often are deceiving.