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.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

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.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

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

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