Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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.

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.