Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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.

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

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.