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.

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.

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

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

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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.