God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.