The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

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.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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.