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?

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

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 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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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