Appearances often are deceiving.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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 from nothing ever yet was born.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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