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

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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

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

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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