Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

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

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.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Men willingly believe what they wish.