Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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.

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

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.