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.

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

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

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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.