Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

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

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

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.