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

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

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

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.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.