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 to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.