
“There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.”
GQ, November 20, 2012 http://www.gq.com/story/frank-ocean-interview-gq-december-2012
Source: Levels of Life
“There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.”
GQ, November 20, 2012 http://www.gq.com/story/frank-ocean-interview-gq-december-2012
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Kunst ist Magie, befreit von der Lüge, Wahrheit zu sein.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 143
Minima Moralia (1951)
Duke University, 01/03/2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcOoqxuroI&t=54m51s
The Magic Of Reality (2012)
Source: The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Context: Don’t ever be lazy enough, defeatist enough, cowardly enough to say “I don't understand it so it must be a miracle - it must be supernatural - God did it”. Say instead, that it’s a puzzle, it’s strange, it’s a challenge that we should rise to. Whether we rise to the challenge by questioning the truth of the observation, or by expanding our science in new and exciting directions - the proper and brave response to any such challenge is to tackle it head-on. And until we've found a proper answer to the mystery, it's perfectly ok simply to say “this is something we don't yet understand - but we're working on it”. It's the only honest thing to do. Miracles, magic and myths, they can be fun. Everybody likes a good story. Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth. The real truth has a magic of its own. The truth is more magical, in the best and most exciting sense of the word, than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic - the magic of reality.
“… the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger….”
Source: Sphinx's Princess
“Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.”
As quoted in Thoughts from Earth (2004) by James Randall Miller
As quoted in Teen Ink : What Matters (2003) by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer, and Peggy Veljkovic, p. 309