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God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

—Tom Robbins, 1976

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

—Derek Walcott, 1986

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

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

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

The 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, 1930

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

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, 1990

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

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

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979

The 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. 1400