The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Quotes
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960There 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.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCBid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCThe 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.
—Albert Einstein, 1930Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCOne thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIn the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BC