Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.