Charles Kingsley Quotes

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

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

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

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.

I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

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.

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

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.

I really don't believe in magic.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

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

My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

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

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.

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.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

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.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.