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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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.

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

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