

“when you demand logic, you pay a hidden price: you destroy magic”
― Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
― Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

“Follow me now, dark-hearted and gray-souled, as I stride on into the mist. If all ends are sown into their beginnings, then there is no other storm but this one.”
― The Measurements of Decay
― The Measurements of Decay

“Irrational people are much more powerful than rational people, because their threats are so much more convincing.”
― How to Be an Alchemist: Or, the Art and Science of Conceiving Effective Ideas that Logical People Will Hate
― How to Be an Alchemist: Or, the Art and Science of Conceiving Effective Ideas that Logical People Will Hate

“For the scientific impulse and the religious impulse — the search for fact and the search for value — are the two prime and vital movements of the human spirit. … Granted exactly equal validity, pursued with exactly equal sincerity, the search for fact and the search for value lead to the threshold of the world of meaning which is at once their origin and their goal.”
― The Savage & Beautiful Country
― The Savage & Beautiful Country

“But there are two kinds of escape. There is the escape from something, motivated by fear; and the escape to something, motivated by longing. To confuse the second with the first is to confuse strength with weakness, courage with cowardice, love with fear. “All life,” said the wise witch of Edmonton, “is a wandering to find home,” and nothing will ever finally extinguish this conviction of the human heart.”
― The Savage & Beautiful Country
― The Savage & Beautiful Country
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