Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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 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.

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

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.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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