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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.