Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Appearances often are deceiving.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.