Magic Quotes - page 8

Nature is a petrified magic city. (Novalis)
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite. View quote
Novalis
I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. View quote
Kate Bush
Mathematical magic combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick. View quote
Martin Gardner
Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic - and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it! View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. View quote
Meister Eckhart
As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics-the model of all neo-positivistic thinking-lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced. View quote
Max Horkheimer
The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic. View quote
Alban Berg
I go forth to seek - To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth! (John Keats)
Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
Children see magic because they look for it. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
The Science you don't know looks like magic. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. View quote
Walt Disney
Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters. View quote
Karl Marx
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation.. it is accepted as easily as it was created. View quote
Robert Bridges
I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents: A honeymoon delight, A joy of love at sight, That ages in an hour My song be like a flower! View quote
Robert Bridges
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic. (Jonah Lehrer)
I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. -Raistlin Majere. View quote
Margaret Weis
He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter. View quote
Margery Williams
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature. View quote
Marsilio Ficino
'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book. View quote
Maureen Johnson