Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Quotes
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939There 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, 1965Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCEgypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200