Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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

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

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

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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

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