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

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

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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

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

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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.

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

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 is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

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