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.

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

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

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.