Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

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

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

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 ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.