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

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.