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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.