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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.