Sorcery Quotes

• I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

  Luis Barragan

  Thinking, Space, Serenity

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• To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Practice, Language, Kind

  "L'art Romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

  Rudy Rucker

  Magic, Style, World

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• Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

  George R. R. Martin

  Spoons, Flavor, Sauce

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1143, Bantam

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• The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

  Hakim Bey

  Wine, Sight, Water

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• There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  People, Ignorant, Littles

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• Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

  Will Durant

  Moving, Sea, Civilization

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.

  Frank Barron

  Order, Giving, Imagination

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• Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Atheist, Believe, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.442, Bantam Classics

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• Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Lying, Science, Lines

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• The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, World, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.195, Penguin

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• He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

  Saint Basil

  Magic, Penance, Murder

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• If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

  Rod Serling

  Magic, Quests, Firsts

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• This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Stories, Literature, Storytelling

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.55, Vintage

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• Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

  Hakim Bey

  Deployment, Ordinary, World

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia

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• SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Punishment, Political

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.209, 谷月社

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• Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

  Rumi

  Trying, Earth, Tomorrow

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• Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

  Hakim Bey

  Kings, Law, Enemy

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.23, Autonomedia

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• If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Games, World, Cheat

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.59, The Overlook Press

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• The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Teaching, Practice

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• All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.

  Fred Brooks

  Believe, Frustration, Goal

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• Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

  Michio Kaku

  Heroism, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, Real, War

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• Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word "grammar," like its sister word "glamour," is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant "sorcery." When we were made to diagram sentences in high school, we were unwittingly being instructed in syntax sorcery, in wizardry. We were all enrolled at Hogwarts. Who knew?

  Tom Robbins

  School, Magic, Syntax

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. 2012.

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• I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant of their causes. But those things which are for the profit of men -- for the turning away of evil events, for the destroying of sorceries, for the curing of diseases, for the exterminating of phantasms, for the preserving of life, honor, or fortune -- may be done without offense to God or injury to religion, because they are, as profitable, so necessary.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Men, Evil, Ignorant

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