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.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

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.

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.