Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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.

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

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

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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

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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Appearances often are deceiving.