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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.