Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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 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.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.