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.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

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