Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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

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

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.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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