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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

Appearances often are deceiving.