One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

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

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

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

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.