Believed Quote by Daniel Defoe

“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather,…

— Hippocrates

“Most high and happy princess, we must tell you a tale of the Man in the Moon, which if it seem ridiculous for the…

— John Lyly

The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably…

— Edward Gibbon

“He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain…

— T.H. White

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

— Alfonso X of Castile

“I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Phury glanced at John and thought that sometimes it took only a hairbreadth between cars to avoid a mortal accident. Sometimes your whole life…

— J.R. Ward

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum…

— Anonymous

“Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.”

— Linda Grant

“There is in all of us a spirit of scepticism which remains with us all our lives. Our most treasured beliefs dwell in its…

— Claude Houghton

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel