A haphazard collection of quotations & so on.
LOT 1

“I find, says the Marchioness with some Concern, a Philosopher will never make a good Martyr, you can so quickly shift your Opinion; 'twas not many Minutes since, the Moon was a perfect Desert; now I see you would be very angry, if any one should say all the rest of the Planets are not inhabited. Why truly, Madam, said I, there is a time for all things; and your true Philosopher believes any thing, or nothing, as the Maggot bites.” (Monsieur De Fontenelle, The Plurality of Worlds, 6th Edition 1737)

“Surrealism has no room for the fantastic when it is elaborated without inner need: it is not so much the description of the impossible as the evocation of the possible, supplemented by desire and dream. [...] Surrealism is based on the belief that there are treasures hidden in the human mind. ” (Sarane Alexandrian, Surrealist Art, Thames & Hudson 1992)