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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.