Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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.