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

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.