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.

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

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.

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.