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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.