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

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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

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.