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On 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, 1888

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

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

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

—Dai Vernon, 1994

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

—Robert Southey, 1809

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

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

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

—Demosthenes, 349 BC

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

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939

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

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979