Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. – Henry David Thoreau

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. – Henri Louis Bergson

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin