Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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

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.

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

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.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

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

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.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.