Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

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

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

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

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

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.