Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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.

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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