On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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