Sorcery Quotes

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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to… — Ambrose Bierce
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound,… — Stephen Vincent Benet
There are people who do, what we would call, lower sorcery. It is best not to be concerned with them. They are not happy people… — Frederick Lenz
I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd. — Frederick Lenz
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been… — Carlos Castaneda
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. — Thomas Jefferson
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who… — Saint Basil
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of… — Luis Barragan
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 shamanism, astral projection… — Hakim
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — Michio Kaku
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in… — Gregory Maguire
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to… — Cormac McCarthy
A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals… — Charles de Lint
He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes… — Steven Brust
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely… — Hayao Miyazaki
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. — George R. R. Martin
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate — Tom Robbins
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit. — Rod Serling

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