Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.