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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

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

—Robert Wilson, 1991

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

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

—Plotinus, c. 255

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

—Demosthenes, 349 BC

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC