Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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.

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

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.