Quotes about magic
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Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[7282@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“Either there is or there is not a mechanism for enforcing human rights. If there is not, it would seem that calling them 'rights' simply means that we think it would (morally) be a good idea if they were enforced, although, of course, they are not. A 'human right' is an inherently vacuous conception, and to speak of 'human rights' is a kind of puffery or white magic.”

Raymond Geuss (1946) British philosopher

Pg 144
History and Illusion in Politics (2001)

Idea, Thinking

“Fear is effective as much as magic.”

Attila (406–453) King of the Hunnic Empire

Turkish Wikipedia
https://quotestats.com/topic/attila-hun-quotes/

Fear

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

World, Thinking, Science

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960) British author

Universe, Waiting

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

“Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“Magical powers worked sometimes; material powers worked all the time.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 12 (p. 218)

Time

“Some people there are who, being grown, forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child. An adult is rarely successful in the undertaking — the reduction of experience to a set of symbols. For a thousand thousand years these humans have existed and they have only learned this trick — this magic — in the final ten thousand of the thousand thousand.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Introduction
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

People, Effort, Learning, Reading

“You have the magical combo of luck and sheer pigheadedness it takes to succeed in business.”

Adam Rakunas American author

Source: Windswept (2015), Chapter 13 (p. 159)

Business

“ALL religions have preserved the remembrance of a primitive book, written in hieroglyphs by the sages of the earliest epoch of the world. [...] The tradition in question rests altogether on the one dogma of Magic: the visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, H.L. Mencken (Translator), The Anti-Christ, Chicago, Sharp Press, 1999, p. 144.</

Books, World, Religion, Question

“Magic is the divinity of man conquered by science in union with faith; the true Magi are Men-Gods, in virtue of their intimate union with the divine principle.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: [Lévi, Éliphas, Blavatsky, H. P., Paradoxes of the Highest Science, 2007, Wildside Press LLC, 9781434401069, 15, https://books.google.com/books?id=oIglEl6BJFoC&q=The%20Paradoxes%20of%20the%20Highest%20Science&pg=PA5]

Men, God, Faith, Science

“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Source: Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians

“In Black Magic, the Devil means the employment of the Grand Magical Agent for a wicked purpose by a perverted Will.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum, Eliphas Levi, Translated by W. Wynn Westcott, London, George Redway, 1896, p. 60.

“There is a true and a false science, a Divine and an Infernal Magic – in other words, one which is delusive and tenebrous.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magi Part I: The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic By Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), Translated by A. E. Waite, England, Rider & Company, England, 1896, p. 3

Science, Falseness

“Magic, or rather magical power, comprehends two things, a science and a force: without the force the science is nothing, or rather it is a danger.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Science

“Time is both a mystery and a miracle. A marvel and magic! We live in time and time lives in us.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher

Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 7. (2021)

Time

“Warriors speak of shamanism as a magical, mysterious bird which has paused in its flight for a moment in order to give man hope and purpose; warriors live under the wind of that bird, which they call the "bird of wisdom," the "bird of freedom."”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "The Power of Silence" (Chapter 18)

Wisdom, Hope, Bird, Freedom

“Necromancy, and Goetia, which is Evil Magic, do produce such shells and demons, apparitions of deceit.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum, Eliphas Levi, Translated by W. Wynn Westcott, London, George Redway, 1896, p. 51.

Evil

“The wonderful part of acting of acting is you don't know what your playmate is going to be offering as that obstacle, and that's the surprising part, that's the magical part, so it's like a game of tennis, you don't know what's going to be thrown at you, you've got to be on you toes.”

Joy Tanner (1966) American actress

Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joy_Tanner

Game, Parting

“You carne in to this world with enough light to find your way out of the dark, enough kindness to save a soul, enough love to shift a planet. I1 Don't worry, you are equipped vith all you could ever need Look with in, you are drenched in magic. Alexis karpouzos”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: https://gr.pinterest.com/pin/688628599258307225/

Love, World, Way, Soul

“Low sample size—one of the reasons why magic and science are hard to reconcile.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Whispers Under Ground

Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 10, “Russell Square” (p. 106)

Science

“When you’re a musician free is a magic number.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 3, “A Long Drink of the Blues” (p. 45)

“Why would someone use magic to kill a jazz musician in the middle of his set? I mean, I have my problems with the New Thing and the rest of the atonal modernists but I wouldn’t kill someone for playing it–at least not if I wasn’t trapped in the same room.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 1, “Body and Soul” (p. 19)

Problem

“But the real magic of the New Year is that it opens our hearts to empathy and trust, generosity and mercy.”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

2021

Heart

“I went to a garden party
to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories
and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party
they all knew my name
no one recognized me
I didn't look the same
But it's all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see ya can't please everyone
So ya got to please yourself
People came from miles around
Everyone was there
Yoko brought her walrus
There was magic in the air
N' over in the corner
much to my surprise
Mr Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes
wearing his disguise
But it's all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see, ya can't please everyone
So ya got to please yourself . . .”

Ricky Nelson (1940–1985) American musician (1940-1985)

- On Wikipedia: Garden Party (song)<br>- Play on YouTube: 'Garden Party' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JK0Z6IdLF4 <br class="br">Songs

People, Shoe, Learning, Memory

“The magic you need is the right you.”

- Goa

“It was fairly evident that at least 90 per cent of all magic, probably more, was balderdash and sheer mystification.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Waldo

Waldo (p. 186)
Short fiction, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)

“Munitions and magic are circles that don’t intersect very effectively.”

James Blish book Black Easter

Source: Black Easter (1968), Chapter 2 (p. 36)

“Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.”

Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892–1981) American businessman

Dreams

“For those who live music with their heart, it is extremely exciting to listen to the magical and sweet melodies of sound every time.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Per chi vive la musica con il cuore, è estremamente emozionante ascoltare ogni volta le magiche e dolci melodie del suono.
Source: prevale.net

Music, Time, Heart

Quotes about magic page 13

Quotes about magic
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