Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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.

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

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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.

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.