God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Quotes
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962On 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, 1888Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCNothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCTo ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BC