All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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.

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

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

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