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

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.

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

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.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.