Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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.