Barbarism Quote by Will Durant

“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved…

— Will Durant

“Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.”

— Toba Beta

“The world has fully lost touch with the old ways. Magic has always stayed so well hidden and out of sight that now it’s…

— Kassandra Cross

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

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits…

— David Liss

“some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.”

— Neal Stephenson

“Magic derives from life—that which is alive, or was alive, or even that which was alive so many ages ago that it has turned…

— N.K. Jemisin

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

— Robin Hobb

“Magic is just what we call a phenomena that science hasnt yet explained”

— Sarah Swan

“This is the root of magic and science, life’s response to uncertainties. Magic runs to the beginnings of life because life is a gift…

— Loren Eiseley

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

— Dan Fogler

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age…

— Helen Hayes