Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929Quotes
One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCGod is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985The 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, 1930There 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, 1960Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCEverything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BC