I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

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

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.