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.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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.

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