Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.