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

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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.

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

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.