Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

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

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.