The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Quotes
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCOn no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986The 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, 1930God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966