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God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

In 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, 1967

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

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

—Italo Calvino, 1967

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

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

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Tom Robbins, 1976

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590