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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

—Thomas Malory, c. 1470

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

—Demosthenes, 349 BC

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

—Roald Dahl, 1990

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC