Circles Quote by Richard Whately

Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive…

— William Benton Clulow

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed…

— Robert Southey

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

— David Platt

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

— James G. Frazer

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among…

— Starhawk

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious…

— Lionel Trilling

Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making…

— Stephen K. Hayes

“Religious fetichism finds its original motive in the delusion that its object, i.e., the idol, is not a mere symbol, but possesses divine attributes,…

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Magic is at the core of myths.

— Colin Farrell