Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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.

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

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

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.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

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

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

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 to fake as the inner vision.

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

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