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Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

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.

—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

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

—John Locke, 1689

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

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

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

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

—Demosthenes, 349 BC

Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC