Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

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.

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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

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

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

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.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.