“You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.”
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
“All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.”
Attributed to Strauss at many sites on the internet, this is actually Norman Maclean, in A River Runs Through It (1976)
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