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Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939

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

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

—Robert Southey, 1809

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

—John Locke, 1689

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

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

—Dai Vernon, 1994

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

—Derek Walcott, 1986

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979