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"Ideo credendum quod incredibile." [It is believable because it is unbelievable.] – Robert Burton, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" (1621), Quoting Tertullian.
"Freud called rapport transference. He believed it was a revival of the original parent-child relationship. Psychoanalytically-trained hypnosis researchers believed trance obedience was rooted in an unconscious longing for, or regression to, a childhood behavior (or instinctual early programming) of total dependence on, and uncritical love of, the parent figures. Little children can believe anything." – Carla Emery, in "A Textbook of Hypnotism".
"A man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world…
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