Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Quotes
In 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, 1967Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967The 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. 1400Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966All 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 BCHave you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCCurses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809