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.

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.