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

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

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

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.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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.