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, 1930Quotes
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCOn 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 mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCThe 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 more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967