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

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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