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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

—Pablo Picasso, 1929

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

—Plotinus, c. 255

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

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

There 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, 1960

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

—Tom Robbins, 1976

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

—Demosthenes, 349 BC

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

—Plato, c. 375 BC