Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

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.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.