Science gives man what he needs. But magic gives him what he wants.

Science gives man what he needs, but magic gives man what he wants.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

only person who can give yourself what you want,

The man who does only as much as is needed will only get that much.

Magic is the divinity of man conquered by science in union with faith; the true Magi are Men-Gods, in virtue of their intimate union with the divine principle.

We must only demand that which each individual can give,” said the king. “The authority rests first on reason.

He no longer listens to voices of reason. Those who tell him what he wants to hear are the only ones he believes.

That’s what logic says. But I say, phooey, who wants logic? Not you, and not me. We want results.

In instinct alone, man had everything he needed in order to live in the state of nature; in a cultivated reason, he has only what he needs to live in society.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Der wirklich freie Mensch will nur, was er vermag, und tut nur, was ihm gefällt.

Magic is only useful against those with an affinity to magic.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.