Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.