Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

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

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.