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.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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