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

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

There 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, 1965

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

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

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

The 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. 1400

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

—Robert Wilson, 1991

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985