Appearances often are deceiving.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

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

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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.

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.