Am Quote by David Liss

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up…

— Alan Moore

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition,…

— Criss Angel

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice…

— David Liss

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

— David Liss

Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if…

— Jon Turteltaub

Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why…

— Bryan Magee

“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure…

— Will Durant

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

— Teller

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

— Derren Brown

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason…

— Paracelsus

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

— Starhawk