"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth. Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep."
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV
"I form the light and create the darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
Isaiah 45:7
"Who is there that is not led out of himself in dreams and noctural visions, and sees much when dreaming which he had never seen waking ?"
Canon Episcopi
"Whatever is done for the safety of the State is merciful."
Sprenger & Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum
"You tax me for a wizard. You may as well tax me for a buzzard. I have done no harm."
George Jacobs Sr., hanged August 19,1692, despite the withdrawal of charges
"A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropiate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to reallocate them."
Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind."
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, The Life of Reason
