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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

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.

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