Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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.

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

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

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

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

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.