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, 1888Quotes
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCMan is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939The 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. 1400Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCAppearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCThe 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, 1930God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991