Only in the present do things happen.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.