Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.