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Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979

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

—Italo Calvino, 1967

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

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

—Albert Camus, 1951

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

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

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

—Tom Robbins, 1976

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

—Pablo Picasso, 1929

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

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

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