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“The association of magic and cryptology was reinforced by other factors. Mysterious symbols were used in such esoteric fields as astrology and alchemy—where each…

— David Kahn

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“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

“The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes so many…

— Peter Elbow

“I do not like mystical language, and yet I hardly know how to express what I mean without employing phrases that sound poetic rather…

— Bertrand Russell

“Magic is the first language of the world. It was the language before words, before mathematics. Humanity can accept concepts like space travel to…

— Rosella Testa

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human…

— Carl Jung

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind…

— Michel Seuphor

That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond…

— Aldous Huxley

“There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura...or the Chinese have…

— Michael Scott

“The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it.”

— Peter Elbow

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson