Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.