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

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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.

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.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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