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

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.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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.

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