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.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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?

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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