Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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.