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, 1990Quotes
The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCOne thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCThere is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967