Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Quotes
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, 1930Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592The 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. 1400The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979