God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Quotes
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, 1990Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960The 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, 1930To 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 BCEgypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCCurses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC