Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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

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

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.