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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.