Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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.

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

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

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

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

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

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.