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Quotes About Magic

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Toda tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Magic is just science we haven't figured out yet
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Jede hinreichend fortschrittliche Technologie ist von Magie nicht zu unterscheiden
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Magic is just science we don't understand yet
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Orice tehnologie suficient de avansat? nu poate fi deosebit? de magie.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Someone once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke's Law—"any increasingly complex technology will look like magic"—signified the undertow which in the Age of Limbaugh
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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~ Sherrylin Kenyon
I decided that I would choose three powerful words, words of strong protection, and so long as these great words were never spoken aloud no change would come.
~ Shirley Jackson
this was a time and a land where enchantments were swiftly made and broken
~ Shirley Jackson
i really like kingdom hearts its like the best book ever
~ Shiro Amano
Kelly, there is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.
~ Sigmund Freud
The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
~ Sigmund Freud
our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that real processes in the external world follow the lines laid down by our thoughts.
~ Sigmund Freud
the principle which controls magic, and the technique of the animistic method of thought, is "Omnipotence of Thought.
~ Sigmund Freud
Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day.
~ Sigmund Freud
In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual's own intellectual operations, from the belief in the 'omnipotence of thoughts', which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics.
~ Sigmund Freud
Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings. Therefore
~ Sigmund Freud
But there lingers over all the fog of the unreal. At times it's as if I truly am in a fairy tale.
~ Sigrid Nunez
They would catch the lightning bugs that came up out of the laurels lining the creek and then put them into mason jars or wear them as glow rings on their fingers.
~ Silas House
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In those days we saw every sort of object as though it were one of those tiny handkerchiefs from which a conjuror can produce silk scarfs, streamers, flags, and yards of ribbon. A cup of coffee became a kaleidoscope in which we could spend ages watching the mutable reflections of ceiling or chandelier.
~ Simone de Beauvoir