Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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.

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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

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