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.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.