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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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