Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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.

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.

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