All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

. . . I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all,” said the Baal Shem.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

The world only hides one thing, says Clément Rosset, and that is that it has nothing to hide. It is sufficient onto itself for its own unveiling. Meaning only appears as the result of the representations and interpretations man may give to it.