Ancient Quote by Will Durant

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away…

— Charles de Lint

“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure…

— Will Durant

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

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

— James Randi

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river.…

— Virgil

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

— Elihu Palmer

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

— Charles Bukowski

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

— Bernard Stiegler

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

— Arthur Symons

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

— Charles Bukowski

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson