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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

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

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

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

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

—John Locke, 1689

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

—Robert Wilson, 1991

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

—Thomas Malory, c. 1470

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

—Plotinus, c. 255