Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCQuotes
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCIn 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, 1967Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 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, 1888Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939