Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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.

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.

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