Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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

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 fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.