Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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

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