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

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.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.