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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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.

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.