Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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

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.

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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.