The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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