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

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

—Plotinus, c. 255

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

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

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

—Demosthenes, 349 BC

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

—Robert Wilson, 1991

Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

—Thomas Malory, c. 1470

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

—Albert Camus, 1951

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC