Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.