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

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

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

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.

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

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

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

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

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

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