The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories

"No. I like to face things I do not understand and I do not submit to them. I am superior to them. Man must think himself higher than lions, tigers, stars, higher than anything in nature, even higher than that which seems incomprehensible and miraculous. Otherwise he is not a man, but a mouse which is afraid of everything."

A miracle is something incomprehensible."

"And you are not afraid of the incomprehensible?"

"One should not go to sick people and old women for miracles. Is not health a miracle? And life itself? A miracle is something incomprehensible."