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.

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?

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.