Dan Brown Quotes

Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.

I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

'The Originals' is going to be an epic showdown of supernatural forces, and that was very evident in the pilot. I just wanted to be a part of that.

I would like to do a role that has something to do with mysticism or even a supernatural one.

The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans.

Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.