#magi

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#formerly #magic #medicine #men #mistake

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#best #common #imagination #over #primacy

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#communism #crusade #even #imaginary #more

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#always #control #error #every #everything

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#go #i #idea #location #magical

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer. ↗

— George Benson

#been #career #considered #early #ever

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven. ↗

— Adam Savage

#felt #finally #going #got #heaven

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up. ↗

— Dan Savage

#end #going #know #magic #never

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#character #divinity #external #flash #imagination