Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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.

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.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.