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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.