Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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