Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
All our knowledge is symbolic.
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.