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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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