The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967Quotes
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCI shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Watch 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, 1990Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCGod is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952The 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, 1930There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689