You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.