I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

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

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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

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.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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