Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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 mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.