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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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

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.

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

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