Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

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

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.

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

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Men willingly believe what they wish.