Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

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

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.