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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

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

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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