I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470Quotes
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCAppearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCOne thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe 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, 1930The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCMan is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970