He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a Greenwich avenue of mature chestnuts and mock… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“People like to talk a big game. They may talk about religion or magic and superstition but in the end, this is… — John Kreiter Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic non-existence at the heart of entity is what Spare designated the Kiã, and he strove to convey his vision in… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“The difference between the dark magic of the Egyptian magicians and Elymas on the one hand, and Moses and Paul on the… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
“None can use black magic without straining the soul to the uttermost—and staining it into the bargain. None can inflict suffering without… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which… — John Banville Copy Share Image
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I did not know I was to be outdone by a little magic boy and his tricks,” he said. “I salute you,… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner Copy Share Image
“You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It’s sorcery,” Cade said, as if explaining things to a slow child. “That’s the explanation.” “I’m a scientist,” she said. “I need… — Christopher Farnsworth Copy Share Image
The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
“I walked past Malison, up Lower Main to Main and across the road. I didn’t need to look to know he was… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead,… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Amanusa sighed. She held out her hand to her husband who helped her to her feet. "Back to the salt mine Grey… — Gail Dayton Copy Share Image
“In other words, magic in both The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia is not equivalent to the occult… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image