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

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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.

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