Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

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

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

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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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.

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

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.