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

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.

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

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.

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

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.