Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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.

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