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.

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

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

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

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.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

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