Approach Quote by Jane Roberts

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just…

— Michael Shermer

“Magical beliefs are revelatory and fascinating not because they are ill-conceived instruments of utility but because they are poetic echoes of the cadences that…

— Michael Taussig

Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.

— Nevill Drury

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

We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious…

— Ernst Cassirer

“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical reason”—pervading secular…

— David Watson

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

— George Eliot

I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it.

— Sebastian Lelio

In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

— J. K. Rowling

“Magic involves making the improbable possible. It's learning how even the slightest change you make can have a radical effect on the internal system…

— Taylor Ellwood

It's only now that I see the bigger picture: Our ways to attain spirituality may be different - through diverse religious, customs and traditions…

— Sunita Williams