Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

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

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.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.