Magical Quotes
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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy...Let's go exploring!
bill watterson— Bill Watterson, last line of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip, published December 31, 1995
And what I've learned isnot to believe in magical leaders any more; that character and compassion are more important than ideology; and that even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to think that it's foolish and unimportant to try.
Peter C Newman— 1973 Home Country: People, Places, and Power Politics.
When a pony does a good deed, he gets a horn and he becomes a unicorn and poops out cotton candy until he forgets he’s magical and then his horn falls off. Black unicorns become zebras.
— Ryan Murphy, in lines written for the Glee episode "I Am Unicorn" (27 September 2011)
I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
— Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)
The most magical moment in the theater is a silence so complete that you can't even hear people breathe. It means that you've got them.
— 1990 In Time, 2 Apr.
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
dion fortune— Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah
I'm over my heart's desire / I feel cold, but I'm back in the fireLove is a litany / A magical mystery / And all in good time"
Noel Gallagher— The Shock of the Lightning
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.
ursula goodenough— p. 30 (The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998))
People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.
subhash kak— The Prajna Sutra.
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin Kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. ... That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.
charles de lint— Goninan in Part One: The Hidden People, "Border Spirit" p. 337
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical .
roger bacon— Cited by Peter Nicholls (1979) The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z. p. 376
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Ch. XIV (Biographia Literaria (1817))
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
aleister crowley— Ch. 1 : The Principles of Ritual
The aerial canoe had no visible means of support, he thought, and it was a measure of his terror that he did not even think about his pun. No visible means of support. Like a magical vessel out of The Thousand and One Nights .
philip josé farmer— Chapter 1 (pp. 5-6)
In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.
james frazer— Chapter 29, The Myth of Adonis
In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.
bertrand russell— Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers.
The autodecrement is not magical.
larry wall— In the perl man page
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
— Roger Bacon, as quoted in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction : An Illustrated A to Z (1979), by Peter Nicholls, p. 376
Poetry is a kind of magic in itself: the Latin word carmen means "poem" as well as "magical chant".
George Luck— Georg Luck, in Arcana Mundi : Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds : A Collection of Ancient Texts (2006), p. 113.
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
— J. B. Priestley, as quoted in Garden Witchery : Magick from the Ground Up (2003) by Ellen Dugan, p. 206.
The object of this pantomime is a form of magical transformation...Kathakali is at once ritual as well as drama...It remains modern and at the same time ritualistic in its abstract chrachterization, in its concentration on the visuals, and in its belief in magical transformation.
— In Washington Post under the title “The Exotic Dance Drama of India”, quoted in p.7
Being an art born out of the soil, Manipuri dance which achieves classicity through the ages, retains still the abstract, magical quality associated with the Lai Haraoba tradition.
— Satyajit Ray in Elangbam Nilakanta Singh (1982). Aspects of Indian culture. Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy. p. 75.
The eternal and wonderful sight of horses at liberty is magical to watch.
Bertrand Leclair— 1001 Best Things Ever Said About Horses, by Steven Price
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical .
— Cited by Peter Nicholls (1979) The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z. p. 376
O Arjuna, God resides in the hearts of all beings, directing their wanderings by the magical power of M?y?, on which they are seated as if it were a machine.
— Krishna; Chapter 18, verse 61; The Times of India translation
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.
Jenny Han— The Summer I Turned Pretty
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. magical music never leaves the memory.
thomas beecham— [Beecham admitted to Neville Cardus that he had made this up on the spur of the moment to satisfy an importunate journalist; he acknowledged that it was an oversimplification. (Neville Cardus: 'Sir Thomas Beecham, A Memoir', 1961)]
