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

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

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

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

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.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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