The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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