There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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

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.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.