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.

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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.

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.