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

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

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.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

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.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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