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The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

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

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

—Robert Southey, 1809

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

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939

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

—John Locke, 1689

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

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

—Demosthenes, 349 BC

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

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

—Italo Calvino, 1967

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.

—Albert Einstein, 1930

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

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

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

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

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965