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.

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.