Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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 from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

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