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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.