Quotes of Necromancy - somelinesforyou

“ Witchcraft was hung, in History,But History and IFind all the Witchcraft that we needAround us, every Day. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. ”

- Paracelsus

“ Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements. ”

- Paracelsus

“ Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. ”

- Paracelsus

“ John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me. ”

- Rupert Hughes

“ A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time... I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ The last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ It is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two. ”

- Lord Dunsany

“ Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ”

- Javan

“ A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon. ”

- Amy Lowell

“ O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies In the small orb of one particular tear. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The world is its own magic. ”

- Shunryu Suzuki

“ Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection. ”

- Starhawk

“ Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ 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… ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing. ”

- Starhawk

“ There is a sort of Witchcrafts in those things, whereto the Temptations of the Devil would inveigle us. To worship the Devil is Witchcraft, and under that notion was our Lord urged unto sin. We are told in 1 Samuel 15:23, "Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft… ”

- Cotton Mather

“ But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. ”

- John Dryden

“ The power of thought, the magic of the mind. ”

- Lord Byron

“ By magic numbers and persuasive sound. ”

- William Congreve

“ Science is magic that works. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. ”

- Truman Capote

“ And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning. ”

- Dar Williams

“ Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. ”

- Germaine Greer

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

- Charles Baudelaire
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