I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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 fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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