Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Quotes
God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966There 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, 1965Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCTo ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888