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

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC

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 from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

—Derek Walcott, 1986

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

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

—Robert Southey, 1809

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

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 Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

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

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

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

—Italo Calvino, 1967