"Most witches donâ€™t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they donâ€™t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Believe Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Witch Quotes

“I'm desperate to start a career in music.”
“Iâ€™m not afraid of the darkness outside. Itâ€™s the darkness inside houses I donâ€™t like.”
“I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?”
“Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.”
“It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.”
“learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”
“The secret art of inviting blessings. Â The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words out loud and in your heart for the improvement of body and mind.”
“We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage

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