Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

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

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

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.