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.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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.

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.