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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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?

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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