Max Stirner Quotes

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material.

I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.

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

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.