There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

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

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.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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 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.

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