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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

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

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.