Sorcery Quotes

47 quotes by 37 authors

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. — Charles Baudelaire
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into… — Karlheinz Deschner
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. — Terry Tempest Williams
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Leo Tolstoy
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times… — Edwin Percy Whipple
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the… — Terry Tempest Williams
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? — Boris Pasternak
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a… — Charles Baudelaire
The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occultâ€¦the demonicâ€¦the satanicâ€¦the practice of witchcraft… — John Hagee
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. — Rudy Rucker
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek… — Hakim Bey
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results. — Hakim Bey
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or… — Richard E. Pattis
The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and… — Frank Barron
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest. — Friedrich Nietzsche
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. — Ambrose Bierce
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a… — Guy de Maupassant
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations… — Fred Brooks

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