Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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.

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.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

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

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

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