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Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC

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

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

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

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

—Robert Southey, 1809

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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

—Robert Wilson, 1991

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

—Italo Calvino, 1967