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, 1990Quotes
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCNothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCEgypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCAppearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCThere 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