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

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.

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

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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.

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.