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

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

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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.