Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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.

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.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

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.