Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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