“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical… — David Watson Copy Share Image
“In my book (and this is my book!) magical thinking is the alchemy that you can use to visualize and project yourself… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“The only fully consistent alternative to belief in God, properly understood, is some version of “materialism” or “physicalism” or (to use the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Every day is a gift Every day is precious Every day counts Every day is filled with magic moments At the end… — Hazel Butterworth Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was magical thinking, but I couldn’t help believing that if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“major argument of this book is that Americans are not just exceptionally religious but that our dominant religion has become exceptionally literal… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into.… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“So I think that a protest,' she went on, 'like a work of dance or a work of music, is something done,… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“After Princeton, the years seem like a blur, but the days seem more like rapid fire. - Donald Rumsfeld in Year of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance -… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“The connection between dopamine and belief was established by experiments conducted by Peter Brugger and his colleague Christine Mohr at the University… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“It had taken Nick most of his life and mine, but he’d finally quit drinking. After he got sober he began to… — Andrea Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I used to indulge in magical thinking when problems seemed insurmountable. Often, this focused on men, for they seemed to be the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
