A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.