Ancient greece Quote by Michael Pollan

“A priest and a philosopher are two different things”

— Victor Hugo

I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

— Madchen Amick

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

I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

— Madchen Amick

“To understand the grimoires within their own context, we must not look at them through the eyes of twenty-first century readers with modern sensibilities.…

— Aaron Leitch

Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of…

— Jeremy Taylor

Magic is a word larger than the word itself

— V

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

— Starhawk

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than…

— George Edward Woodberry

“The new priest in his whitish lab-coat gives you nothing at all except a constantly changing vocabulary which he -- because he usually doesn't…

— Robertson Davies

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

— David Hume

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

— Tom Robbins