The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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

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