Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

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

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

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.