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

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

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

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

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

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

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.