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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

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.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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