One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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.

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.

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.

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

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