“If you let the alembic cool, metaphor becomes superstition.”
“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”
“you don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”
“Let's cool it, brothers.”
“I was becoming addicted, Diotallevi was becoming corrupted, Belbo was becoming converted. But all of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.”
“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”