But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. – Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game