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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.