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

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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.

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