“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“But if he has lost the sane vision, he can only get it back by something very like a mad vision; that is, by seeing a man as a strange animal and realising how strange an animal he is.”

“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it.”

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”

“If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also. Thus he believed that children were indeed the kingdom of heaven, but nevertheless ought to be obedient to the kingdom of earth. He admired youth because it was young and age because it was not. It is exactly this balance of apparent contradictions that has been the whole buoyancy of the healthy man.”

“The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.”

“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.”