Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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.

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

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.