Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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 fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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.