Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Quotes
On 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, 1888The 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, 1930In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970To 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 BCNothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCAny serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200