“Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.”

“One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.”

“A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.”

“Personal growth must sometimes be measured by distance travelled rather than by current position”

“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work - that is correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area. Furthermore, it must satisfy certain esthetic criteria - that is, in relation to how much it describes, it must be rather simple.”

“I sent him a silent message with my body language, but he must be deaf—or, rather, blind.”