Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Quotes
God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCThe subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCBid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592