Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

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