Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.