Appearances often are deceiving.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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.

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 not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

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

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

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