Appearances often are deceiving.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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