It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.